The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.